Soap legend Adam Woodyatt has 'no fears' ahead of his first appearance on the Bord Gais.
The Eastenders legend, who is currently on sabbatical from the BBC soap, will play Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in October. And the Albert Square star has admitted that nothing will take him down when he's singing on stages as the former I'm a Celeb contestant has "no fears".
He told Dublin Live: "I actually haven’t got any fears, we’ve all been too well rehearsed - I don’t like wasps, that’s probably about it! If someone is stupid enough to shout something up, I hope they’d be thrown out.
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"There’s no point in being fearful of it, it’s what we do for a living."
Last winter, Adam starred on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!, and the 54-year-old he says if he can tackle that, he can tackle anything. He also revealed he got some sneak peaks of the football results during the show's suspension due to the poor weather.
He said: "It was fine, I just went and chopped wood. I chopped a lot of wood. I kept the fire going.
"The worst thing was probably being evaluated during the hurricane. We lost a couple of days there, it was the worst time in the castle because I loved it.
"We were all in isolation before we went in, it was pretty dull. Although me and Simon (Gregson) both worked out that we were going in together so we were texting each other. I’d love to do a show with Si. I think Si can do most things. He’s very, very talented, he’s a good bloke and I like him.
"Even though they disconnected the TV and said you only have Netflix, we just reprogrammed it. People asked me if I watched people going into the castle, but no I didn't want to spoil it so I watched the football."
Speaking about the production of My Fair Lady, Adam said that he isn't nervous about bringing the show back on tour after 17 years. "I think the last time it was on tour was in 2005 and it doesn’t go out on tour very often because it’s such a big show," he added:
"The last tour I did had 16 people who were cast and crew, this time we’ve 30 people in the orchestra. It’s a massive production, the scales of the sets, the size of the ensemble, the size of the orchestra, the size of the hats, there’s some very big hats and some very big wigs underneath.
"It’s massive, it’s lavish, spectacular and it’s a really good production. I was lucky enough to see it in London and I think I saw it six times during the rehearsals. It’s such a big number, there’s literally something happening everywhere on stage."
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